Faceless Quotes

• Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.

  George W. Bush

  Morning, September 11, Coward

  9/11 Remarks at Barksdale Air Force Base, delivered 11 September, 2001, Barksdale, Louisiana

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• And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.

  Sylvia Plath

  Identity, Ache

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.17, Anchor

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• More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

  Dennis Prager

  Tyrants, Done, Dictator

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

  Curt Weldon

  Veterans Day, Truth, Ethos

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• I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

  Pat Oliphant

  Hate, Taken, Administration

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• Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

  Dean Koontz

  Eye, Evil, Looks

  Dean R. Koontz (1994). “Three Complete Novels”, Putnam Adult

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• Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you.

  Christina Ricci

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Numbers, Crowds, Matter

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• In the civil society, the individual is recognized and accepted as more than an abstract statistic or faceless member of some group; rather, he is a unique, spiritual being with a soul and a conscience.

  Mark Levin

  Spiritual, Unique, Soul

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• I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

  Chris Bosh

  Opponents, Matter, Cry

  "Not a Third Wheel: A GQ&A with Chris Bosh". Interview with Mark Anthony Green, www.gq.com. January 12, 2012.

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• Through music time is tamed, although music never forgets to remind us of time's faceless mission.

  Russell Sherman

  Never Forget, Missions, Tamed

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• The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

  Noam Chomsky

  Intellectual, Roles, Individual

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that might once have been alive; forked lightnings slashed the ebony night; the faceless were walking; all was right with the world

  Neil Gaiman

  Lonely, Night, Ghouls

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• The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal.

  Pope Francis

  Goal, Heartless, Golden

  Pope Francis' Address to the New Non-Resident Ambassadors to the Holy See: Kyrgyzstan, Antigua and Barbuda, Luxembourg and Botswana, w2.vatican.va. May 16, 2013.

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• colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, School, Dark

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin

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• It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.

  Cheyenne McCray

  Past, People, Nameless

  Cheyenne McCray (2009). “The First Sin: A Lexi Steele Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

  Dhani Harrison

  Thinking, Hype, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had never liked bullying of any sort, especially when an individual acquires his courage by becoming part of a faceless mob. I always say if you need fake courage, get it out of a bottle like I do.

  Gary Reilly

  Bullying, Fake, Needs

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• Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that.

  Ruth Graham

  Knowing, Waiting, Soul

  Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.138, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?

  Amitav Ghosh

  Family, Country, Anger

  Amitav Ghosh (2001). “The Glass Palace: A Novel”, p.31, Random House

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• For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle, confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn't achieve the "zone," if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.

  Alan Arkin

  Years, Judging, Acting

  Alan Arkin (2011). “An Improvised Life: A Memoir”, p.51, Da Capo Press

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• I certainly wouldn't compare the rewards of watching one's children grow and mature with that of money piling up at the box office. Both are pleasant, but to varying degrees. As the old saying goes, you can't take an audience home with you. You can't depend on the loyalty of fans, who, after all is said and done, are just faceless people one seldom sees. And few stars have their fans forever. But a child is forever. That bond and relationship is timeless and doesn't depend on your looks, age or popularity at the moment.

  Julie Andrews

  Loyalty, Stars, Children

  Saturday Evening Post, February 1980.

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• This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

  Halle Berry

  Doors, Tonight, Oscars

  Halle Berry's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 24, 2002.

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• I think zombies have always been an easy metaphor for hard times. Because they're this big, faceless, brainless group of evil things that will work tirelessly to destroy you and think of nothing else.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Thinking, Hard Times, Evil

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• Despotic governments do not recognize the precious human component of the state, seeing its citizens only as a faceless, mindless -- and helpless -- mass to be manipulated at will. It is as though people were incidental to a nation rather than its very life-blood.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Government, Blood, Tyrants

  Aung San Suu Kyi (1991). “Freedom from fear: and other writings”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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